CitizenVectron Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I don't even know what to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 what a monster Spoiler Kickstarter is already well over 7 million. Holy shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 When I said that Sanderson writes 250 pages before breakfast, I intended it as a joke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 He lives in the city next to mine and teaches creative writing at my alma mater. I have met him several times and he is always kind and positive. The man is a treasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 last time I check, a short time ago, it was already up to 13 million Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 should also note that it's a killer deal if you are a fan of his work, 60 bucks for copies of both the ebook and audio copies for 4 novels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 9 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: should also note that it's a killer deal if you are a fan of his work, 60 bucks for copies of both the ebook and audio copies for 4 novels! Yeah, it's a good deal for the audio and ebooks, but the hardcovers are quite expensive. And if you want them shipped to Canada...the shipping alone is $180. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 I’ll borrow the books from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: Yeah, it's a good deal for the audio and ebooks, but the hardcovers are quite expensive. And if you want them shipped to Canada...the shipping alone is $180. the shipping is indeed nuts, as for the hardcovers being expensive, yes but then it's not being done from a major imprint and so they'll be somewhat pricey to print, it's now just shy of 16 mil not bad for just over a day of being live. This will definitely be his biggest payday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: Yeah, it's a good deal for the audio and ebooks, but the hardcovers are quite expensive. And if you want them shipped to Canada...the shipping alone is $180. I’m guessing they didn’t anticipate just how many they would sell. I bet the printing on a quality hardcover in the low thousands is ridiculously expensive, but it looks like he is more in the 30k range now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 That shipping is certainly not out of the ordinary for ex-US kickstarters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: That shipping is certainly not out of the ordinary for ex-US kickstarters. To Canada it is! Typically Canadians pay the same as Americans since our postal services are intertwined. Even if it required parcel shipping with a private carrier, it should be something like $10-$20 per book, not $40-$50! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 now over 20 mil, this will easily soon be the biggest kickstarter of all time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I remember when a female YA author started a kickstarter, people thought she was being greedy, she got doxxed, people took aerial drone photos of her house to prove… something… and she’s never published under that pen name again. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 6 hours ago, Kal-El814 said: I remember when a female YA author started a kickstarter, people thought she was being greedy, she got doxxed, people took aerial drone photos of her house to prove… something… and she’s never published under that pen name again. Good times. don't recall that all but that sucks as for Brandon's KS....it's now blown past 22 million and is the most successful kickstarter of all time. Now the question is just how high will it go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 passed 30 million this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 so Brandon and his team went and backed every publishing project currently on Kickstarter 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 so it would seem Brandon isn't done with the surprises yet ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 10 more books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Chairslinger said: was hoping it would be the 5th book he mentioned during his kickstart kickoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Ended up ending a bit shy of 42 million, which still means it doubled the previous highest ever kickstarter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Just a wild amount. Also odd that this whole thing started based on a riff on… apology videos? What a goober. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 I don't know all the details but Brandon already had some small scale publishing "house" right? But really it only served him in a limited capacity, it's not like they were publishing books on a wide scale. For something like this it almost seems like Brandon is going to have to create a full grown business. Hell, books get on the Times list nowadays for low hundreds of thousands in sales, I think. At 41 million that means Brandon is going to be attempting to ship at least a few million actual, physical books, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Chairslinger said: I don't know all the details but Brandon already had some small scale publishing "house" right? But really it only served him in a limited capacity, it's not like they were publishing books on a wide scale. For something like this it almost seems like Brandon is going to have to create a full grown business. Hell, books get on the Times list nowadays for low hundreds of thousands in sales, I think. At 41 million that means Brandon is going to be attempting to ship at least a few million actual, physical books, right? He has a publishing company but they mainly do special high end editions of his books. This will definitely be their biggest project and he's having trouble finding a warehouse as their current one won't be able to handle this capacity. Also his local post office called him up like on the first or second day of the kickstarter to tell him there was no way in hell they could handle that capacity as for Time bestseller list, low hundreds of thousands??? You can hit the top 10 with less than 20K. Heck depending on the category fiction/nonfiction. hardcover you can hit the top 10 with less than 10K But as for these books, since they are being sold direct to the consumer, unless Brandon and his team have made a deal to have retail copies available when they launch (which is possible as one of his people yesterday talked about potential deals being worked on with foreign publishers), these books likely won't qualify to be on the bestseller list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 The best seller list is rigged as fuck anyway, nobody should care about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 58 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: The best seller list is rigged as fuck anyway, nobody should care about it. can't argue that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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